A tutorial on hidden Markov models and selected applications in speech recognition
Readings in speech recognition
An Architecture-Based Approach to Self-Adaptive Software
IEEE Intelligent Systems
The WSLA Framework: Specifying and Monitoring Service Level Agreements for Web Services
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Pinpoint: Problem Determination in Large, Dynamic Internet Services
DSN '02 Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
DSN '02 Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Improving availability with recursive microreboots: a soft-state system case study
Performance Evaluation - Dependable systems and networks-performance and dependability symposium (DSN-PDS) 2002: Selected papers
GlueQoS: Middleware to Sweeten Quality-of-Service Policy Interactions
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Interposed proportional sharing for a storage service utility
Proceedings of the joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Composition of coordinated web services
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IFIP/USENIX international conference on Middleware
Combining statistical monitoring and predictable recovery for self-management
WOSS '04 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSOFT workshop on Self-managed systems
An Architectural Approach to Autonomic Computing
ICAC '04 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomic Computing
ICAC '05 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automatic Computing
Quickly Finding Known Software Problems via Automated Symptom Matching
ICAC '05 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automatic Computing
Multi-resolution Abnormal Trace Detection Using Varied-length N-grams and Automata
ICAC '05 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automatic Computing
Implementing Large-Scale Autonomic Server Monitoring Using Process Query Systems
ICAC '05 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automatic Computing
Exploit Failure Prediction for Adaptive Fault-Tolerance in Cluster Computing
CCGRID '06 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
I-RMI: performance isolation in information flow applications
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 2005 International Conference on Middleware
Protectit: trusted distributed services operating on sensitive data
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2008
WorldTravel: A Testbed for Service-Oriented Applications
ICSOC '08 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing
Isolation points: Creating performance-robust enterprise systems
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
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Modern enterprise applications and systems are characterized by complex underlying software structures, constantly evolving feature sets, and frequent changes in the data on which they operate. The dynamic nature of these applications and systems poses substantial challenges to their use and management, suggesting the need for automated solutions. This paper considers a specific set of dynamic changes, large data updates that reflect changes in the current state of the business, where the frequency of such updates can be multiple times per day. The paper then presents techniques and their middleware implementation for automatically managing requests streams directed at server applications subjected to dynamic data updates, the goal being to improve application reliability in face of evolving feature sets and business data. These techniques (1) automatically detect input patterns that lead to performance degradation or failures and then (2) use these detections to trigger application-specific methods that control input patterns to avoid or at least, defer such undesirable phenomena. Lab experiments using actual traces from Worldspan show a 16% decrease in frequency of server restarts when using these techniques, at negligible costs in additional overheads and within delays suitable for the rates of changes experienced by this application.